Attachment F- Acronyms.pdf

NAEP Abbreviations and Acronyms--ED-IES-12-R-0021--Attachment - F 1

AC Alliance Coordination

AAHE American Association for Higher Education

ACE American Council on Education

ACT ACT (formerly the American College Testing Program)

ADTracker Assessment Division Tracker

AERA American Education Research Association

AFRB Award Fee Review Board

AFT American Federation of Teachers

AIR American Institutes for Research

ALS Achievement-level Setting

ASP Active Server Pages

ASVAB Armed Service Vocational Aptitude Battery

BIB Balanced Incomplete Block (PBIB adds “partially”)

CADE Computer Assisted Data Entry

CCB Change Control Board

CCD Common Core of Data

CCSSO Council of Chief State School Officers

CELA National Research and Development Center on English Learning and Achievement

CO Contracting Officer

COR Contracting Officer’s Representative

COTS Commercial-off-the-Self

CRC Content Review Committees

CRM Customer Relations Management

CS Contracting Specialist

CV Coefficient of Variation

DAC Design and Analysis Committee

DAR Design, Analysis, and Reporting

DDESS Department of Defense Domestic Dependent Elementary and Secondary Schools (see also DoDDS)

DESI Direct Estimation Software Interactive

DIF Differential item functioning

DoDDS Department of Defense Dependents Schools (Overseas) (see also DDESS)

DoDEA Department of Defense Education Administration

DRB Disclosure Review Board

ECLS Early Childhood Longitudinal Study

ECPIC Electronic Capitol Planning and Investment Control System

ED U.S. Department of Education

EFT Electronic Funds Transfer

EIMAC Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (of CCSSO)

ELL English language learner (see also LEP)

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

ESEA Elementary and Secondary Education Act

ETS Educational Testing Service

FAR Federal Acquisition Regulation

FDO Fee Determining Official

FDR False Discovery Rate

FTE Full-time Equivalent

GAO U.S. Government Accountability Office

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GMR Government Micro Resources, Inc. (also GMRI)

GPC General Partial Credit

GPO Government Printing Office

HSTS High School Transcript Study

IAEP International Assessment of Educational Progress

ICT Interactive Computer Task

ID Item Development

IDEA Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

IES Institute of Education Sciences

IMS Integrated Management System (for NAEP staff archiving, collaboration)

IMT Information Management Team (of the Department of Education)

IRA International Reading Association

ITDS Item Tracking and Development System

LEA Local Education Agency

LEP Limited-English-Proficient (see also ELL)

LTT Long-Term Trend

MDPS Materials Distribution, Preparation, and Scoring

MMLE Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimates

NAE National Academy of Education

NAEP National Assessment of Educational Progress

NAGB National Assessment Governing Board (may be referred as “the Governing Board”)

NAIS National Association of Independent Schools

NAS National Academy of Sciences

NCES National Center for Education Statistics

NCLB No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

NCSS National Council for Social Studies

NCTE National Council of Teachers of English

NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

NPTS NAEP Project Tracking System

NEA National Education Association

NDE NAEP Data Explorer

NEGP National Education Goals Panel

NELS National Education Longitudinal Study

NESSI NAEP Education Statistics Services Institute (of AIR)

NIES National Indian Education Study

NIT NAEP Incident Tracker

NRC National Research Council

NSF National Science Foundation

NSLP National School Lunch Program

NPTS NAEP Product Tracking System

NTT NAEP Task Tracking System

NVS NAEP Validity Studies

OARS On-line Activity Reporting System

OBEMLA Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs

OERI Office of Educational Research and Improvement (now IES)

OFCCP Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

OMB Office of Management and Budget

QASP Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

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QC Quality Control

QCT Quality Control Team (for NAEP)

ODBC Open Database Connectivity

PBTS Project Budget Tracking System

PCTS Public Communication Tracking System (for NAEP)

PIL Process Improvement Log

PODS Publication, Outreach and Dissemination

PSU Primary Sampling Unit

RFP Request for Proposals

RITS Report Inquiry Tracking System

SASS Schools and Staffing Survey

SD Students with Disabilities

SDC Sampling and Data Collection

SE Standard Error

SEA State Education Agency

SES Socio-Economic Status

SoW Stat of the Week (NAEP home page)

SOW Statement of Work

SPSS Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

SPTS State Participation Tracking System

SSC State Service Center

STW School-to-Work

SVG Scalable vector graphics

TBA NAEP Technology-Based Assessment project

TIMSS Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (used to be Third International Mathematics and Science Study)

TDW Technical Documents on the Web

TRE (Problem Solving in) Technology-Rich Environment (NAEP)

TSA Trial State Assessment (NAEP state assessments in 1990, 1992, 1994)

TO Task Order

TOC Task Order Component

TUDA Trial Urban District Assessment

WebCMS (NAEP) Web Content Management System

WOM Web Operations and Maintenance

WR Work Request

WTCCB Web/Technology Change Control Board (also referred to as CCB)